<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>SDRG News</title><link>http://www.sdrg.org/</link><description>The latest news about the UW Social Development Research Group.</description>

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<title>Adolescents: From the Margins to the Mainstream of Global Health</title>
<link>http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/population-family-health/events/adolescents-margins-mainstream-global-health-0</link>
<guid>http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/population-family-health/events/adolescents-margins-mainstream-global-health-0</guid>
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On April 26, 2012, The Lancet, the Centre for Adolescent Health, Melbourne, Australia and the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University presented an academic symposium titled, “Adolescents: From the Margins to the Mainstream of Global Health.” This event was in support of the release of a ground-breaking new Lancet series on Adolescent Health in New York City during the week of April 22, 2012.]]></description>
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<title>Young people's health is not keeping pace</title>
<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-04-25/adolescent-health-factors/54511156/1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=205764</link>
<guid>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-04-25/adolescent-health-factors/54511156/1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=205764</guid>
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Although the health of the world's infants and children has improved significantly in the past 50 years, that same success has not been achieved for adolescents and young adults, say reports out today.]]></description>
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<title>Global Application of Prevention Science - Catalano et al article in Lancet Adolescent Health Series</title>
<link>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/global-health-priorities-should-shift-to-preventing-risky-behaviors-in-adolescence-uw-professor</link>
<guid>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/global-health-priorities-should-shift-to-preventing-risky-behaviors-in-adolescence-uw-professor</guid>
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As childhood and adolescent deaths from infectious diseases have declined worldwide, policymakers are shifting attention to preventing deaths from noncommunicable causes, such as drug and alcohol use, mental health problems, obesity, traffic crashes, violence and unsafe sex practices.]]></description>
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<title>J. David Hawkins Endowed Professor of Prevention, University of Washington Joseph E. Zins Award for Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning: Distinguished Scholar</title>
<link>http://casel.org/j-david-hawkins/</link>
<guid>http://casel.org/j-david-hawkins/</guid>
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David Hawkins’s determination to understand how prevention works, and to get sound scientific answers to his questions, led him to become one of the foremost researchers in the interrelated fields of social and emotional learning, problem prevention, health promotion, and positive youth development.]]></description>
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<title>J. David Hawkins featured author interview- Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine</title>
<link>http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/content/vol0/issue2012/images/data/archpediatrics.2011.183/DC1/020612hawkins.mp3</link>
<guid>http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/content/vol0/issue2012/images/data/archpediatrics.2011.183/DC1/020612hawkins.mp3</guid>
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Dr Hawkins discusses his Article on Sustained Decreases in Risk Exposure and Youth Problem Behaviors After Installation of the Communities That Care Prevention System in a Randomized Trial.]]></description>
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<title>J. David Hawkins is 2012 Marjorie Pay Hinckely Lecturer</title>
<link>http://fhsslectures.byu.edu/2012_MPH_Hawkins_lg.mp4</link>
<guid>http://fhsslectures.byu.edu/2012_MPH_Hawkins_lg.mp4</guid>
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"Promoting Positive Youth Development"]]></description>
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<title>J. David Hawkins to present 6th Annual Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health</title>
<link>https://sph.uth.tmc.edu/dellhealthyliving/childhealthlectureship/</link>
<guid>https://sph.uth.tmc.edu/dellhealthyliving/childhealthlectureship/</guid>
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Dr. J. David Hawkins of The University of Washington, Seattle to lecture at the Sixth Annual Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health, in Austin, Texas.]]></description>
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<title>40 percent of youths attempting suicide make first attempt before high school</title>
<link>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/40-percent-of-youths-attempting-suicide-make-first-attempt-before-high-school</link>
<guid>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/40-percent-of-youths-attempting-suicide-make-first-attempt-before-high-school</guid>
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Thoughts about killing oneself and engaging in suicidal behavior may begin much younger than previously thought. While about one of nine youths attempt suicide by the time they graduate from high school, new findings reveal that a significant proportion make their first suicide attempt in elementary or middle school.]]></description>
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<title>Mobilizing Communities to Implement Tested and
Effective Programs to Help Youth Avoid Risky Behaviors:
The Communities That Care Approach</title>
<link>http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends_2011_10_01_RB_MobilizingComm.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends_2011_10_01_RB_MobilizingComm.pdf</guid>
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Researchers
in the field of prevention science have identified a number of factors that make it more likely or less likely
that a young person will adopt problem behaviors. Prevention scientists have drawn on these findings to
design programs aimed at preventing youth from getting caught up in delinquency, drug use, and other
problem behaviors, and they have evaluated these programs using rigorous scientific criteria.]]></description>
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<title>The Kristin Anderson Moore Lecture</title>
<link>http://www.childtrends.org/_docdisp_page.cfm?LID=C62181C4-CF8A-462B-A414A30D4EED1393#2010Lecture</link>
<guid>http://www.childtrends.org/_docdisp_page.cfm?LID=C62181C4-CF8A-462B-A414A30D4EED1393#2010Lecture</guid>
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The Lecture is an opportunity for Child Trends to raise an important issue related to children’s well-being and to encourage thoughtful public discussion of that issue.]]></description>
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<title>Community effort brings lasting drop in smoking, delinquency, drug use</title>
<link>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/community-effort-brings-lasting-drop-in-smoking-delinquency-drug-use-1</link>
<guid>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/community-effort-brings-lasting-drop-in-smoking-delinquency-drug-use-1</guid>
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Delaying the age when kids try alcohol or smoking decreases the likelihood that they will become dependent later in life. Effective interventions exist, but community disagreements about which programs to try can stymie decisions.]]></description>
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<title>33 percent drop in physical bullying in schools using Steps to Respect</title>
<link>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/33-percent-drop-in-physical-bullying-in-schools-using-steps-to-respect</link>
<guid>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/33-percent-drop-in-physical-bullying-in-schools-using-steps-to-respect</guid>
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Elementary schools using the bullying prevention program Steps to Respect saw a reduction in physical bullying and in the number of teachers reporting fighting as a big problem, according to a new University of Washington study.]]></description>
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<title>New U.S. Study First to Show Less Physical Bullying in Schools</title>
<link>http://www.cfchildren.org/about/press-releases/bullying-study/</link>
<guid>http://www.cfchildren.org/about/press-releases/bullying-study/</guid>
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Schools using a bullying prevention program saw significantly less physical bullying and fewer teachers reporting fighting as a big problem, according to a University of Washington study to be released this week.]]></description>
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<title>Adult-supervised drinking in teens may lead to more alcohol use</title>
<link>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/adult-supervised-drinking-in-teens-may-lead-to-more-alcohol-use</link>
<guid>http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/adult-supervised-drinking-in-teens-may-lead-to-more-alcohol-use</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2011</pubDate>			
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Allowing adolescents to drink alcohol under adult supervision does not appear to teach responsible drinking as teens get older. In fact, such a permissive approach may actually lead to more drinking and alcohol-related consequences.]]></description>
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<title>Does Drinking With Parents Help Teens Drink More Responsibly? Not Really</title>
<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/29/does-drinking-with-parents-help-teens-drink-more-responsibly-not-really</link>
<guid>http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/29/does-drinking-with-parents-help-teens-drink-more-responsibly-not-really</guid>
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“Our main message is that adults really do need to pay attention to what they are allowing their kids to do, and what they are giving them permission to do in their presence,” says McMorris. “Actions speak louder than words.”]]></description>
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<title>Teenage dinnertime tipple 'leads to alcohol problems'</title>
<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8478017/Teenage-dinnertime-tipple-leads-to-alcohol-problems.html</link>
<guid>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8478017/Teenage-dinnertime-tipple-leads-to-alcohol-problems.html</guid>
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Middle-class parents who let their children have the odd glass of wine or bottle of beer at home when they are in their early teens are doing them more harm than good, a study finds today (THUR).]]></description>
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<title>Adult-supervised drinking in young teens may lead to more alcohol use,
consequences</title>
<link>pressrelease.pdf</link>
<guid>pressrelease.pdf</guid>
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Allowing adolescents to drink alcohol under adult supervision does not appear to teach responsible drinking as teens get older. In fact, such a “harm-minimization” approach may actually lead to more drinking and alcohol-related consequences, according to a new study in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.]]></description>
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<title>The Man Who is Making a Difference: SDRG Director Rico Catalano featured in Prevention Action</title>
<link>http://www.preventionaction.org/people/man-who-making-difference/5515</link>
<guid>http://www.preventionaction.org/people/man-who-making-difference/5515</guid>
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Catalano and colleagues, therefore, used principles of the Social Development Model to inform the development of a series of family, school and community-based interventions, which were received by some of the children in the SSDP cohort. The positive impacts of these interventions are still observable in the lives of these children almost 30 years later.]]></description>
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<title>Mothers Abused in Childhood More Likely to Have At-Risk Babies: Collaborator Amelia Gavin publishes results of analysis of the Seattle Social Development Project Intergenerational dataset</title>
<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/30/mothers-who-suffered-child-abuse-more-likely-to-have-at-risk-babies/</link>
<guid>http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/30/mothers-who-suffered-child-abuse-more-likely-to-have-at-risk-babies/</guid>
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Increasingly, a whole body of research indicates what happens early in childhood — even in utero — affects the rest of your life. Now, a new study reinforces that perspective, finding that women who were abused as children stand a greater chance of delivering low-birthweight babies.]]></description>
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<title>Still Shining a Light After Thirty Years: A profile of SDRG's Seattle Social Development Project</title>
<link>http://preventionaction.org/reviews/still-shining-light-after-30-years/5518</link>
<guid>http://preventionaction.org/reviews/still-shining-light-after-30-years/5518</guid>
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While families, schools, communities and children’s service agencies are concerned about consequences of delinquency and drug abuse of young people, the Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP) is one of handful of longitudinal studies which has sought specifically to understand the influences and development of these problems.]]></description>
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<title>Prevention Program Averts Initiation of Alcohol and Tobacco Use</title>
<link>http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_notes/NNvol23N4/Prevention.html</link>
<guid>http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_notes/NNvol23N4/Prevention.html</guid>
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In the first randomized trial of Communities That Care (CTC), middle school students in towns that utilized the prevention system reported less delinquency, initiation of alcohol and tobacco use, and binge drinking than peers in comparison towns.]]></description>
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<title>SDRG Assistant Director Kevin Haggerty featured on the Q13 Fox TV series 'What would you do if'.</title>
<link>http://www.q13fox.com/news/what-would-you-do/kcpq-wwyd-story-teen-party,0,5715948.story</link>
<guid>http://www.q13fox.com/news/what-would-you-do/kcpq-wwyd-story-teen-party,0,5715948.story</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:30</pubDate>			
<description><![CDATA[
Is it a rite of passage or just plain wrong? What would you do if you found out your teenager was planning a wild house party while you were out of town?<br><br>

Kevin Haggerty is the Assistant Director of the Social Development Research Group at the U.W. School of Social Work.<br><br>

"If you find out about this, this is a great opportunity for you as a parent to really be clear about what your expectations around underage drinking and what their responsibilities at home are," says Haggerty.]]></description>
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<title>Stop school bullying by attacking underlying causes</title>
<link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2012093490_guest13herrenkohl.html</link>
<guid>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2012093490_guest13herrenkohl.html</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:00</pubDate>			
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The beating of a 14-year old boy at Mount Si High School calls for greater emphasis on diversity, more attention to prevention, and clear policies and procedures for dealing with bullies.]]></description>
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